The influence of daily routines on creative output has always been of interest to Maria Popova, a New York-based Bulgarian writer and blogger. Such was her interest in successful writers' sleep habits that she commissioned illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and information design team Accurat to create this rather superb infographic, charting authors' sleeping patterns and their literary productivity.

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Maria Popova of Brain Pickings found herself wondering about the sleep habits of some literary geniuses and worked with Wendy MacNaughton to illustrate them. How do your winks stack up to your favorite authors?

“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” – Neil Gaiman (from blog post "12 Famous Writers on Literary Rejection")